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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtFavkjQUI

An Interview with Ardal O’Hanlon

Last February one of my favourite comedians (John Colleary from The Savage Eye) was coming to the comedy club at The Model Sligo. I knew that young people had always interviewed visiting artists at The Model. I noticed that even though Ireland’s top comedians regularly come to the comedy club no one ever seemed to interview them – even the local newspapers. I made a few phone-calls and The Model said they’d let us interview him if he agreed. John luckily remembered us from when we had a walk-on part in one of The Savage Eye’s sketches last November, so it wasn’t too hard getting the interview. Since then we’ve been interviewing all of the comics who come to the local comedy club. Our most recent was Ardal O’Hanlon.

Ardal is an award winning comedian, actor and writer from Carrickmacross in Monaghan. He is probably best known by the public for when once-upon-a-time he played the role of Dougal McGuire in the cult Irish Sitcom ‘Father Ted.’ Since then (for the last fifteen or so years) he has led a hugely successful career as a stand-up and done lots of other acting jobs including on ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Skins’.

David and I were to interview him after the show so we went to his show first. I would put him up there as one of the best comedians I have ever seen and his material is honest to God brilliant.

Interviewing him was great – he’s a really nice guy. Owing to summer exams I had to put off editing it until quite recently but it’s up on the ‘Craic in the box’ YouTube channel along with all our other interviews. The next interview I’ll be putting up will be the first interview we ever got which was our one with John Colleary.

Check out the video for the interview!

Links
The Model
Themodel.ie

Ardal’s Website
http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~iamappalled/

Our YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/craicinthebox

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